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A Web application facilitates collaborative
development of the ground operations
planning document. This will reduce costs
and development time for new programs
by incorporating the data governance,
access control, and revision tracking of the
ground operations planning data.

Ground Operations Planning requires
the creation and maintenance of detailed
timelines and documentation. The
GOPDb Web application was created
using state-of-the-art Web 2.0 technologies,
and was deployed as SaaS (Software
as a Service), with an emphasis on data
governance and security needs.
Application access is managed using twofactor
authentication, with data write permissions
tied to user roles and responsibilities.
Multiple instances of the application
can be deployed on a Web server to meet
the robust needs for multiple, future programs
with minimal additional cost.

This innovation features high availability
and scalability, with no additional
software that needs to be bought or
installed. For data governance and security
(data quality, management, business
process management, and risk management
for data handling), the software
uses NAMS. No local copy/cloning of
data is permitted. Data change
log/tracking is addressed, as well as collaboration,
work flow, and process standardization.
The software provides
online documentation and detailed
Web-based help.

There are multiple ways that this software
can be deployed on a Web server to
meet ground operations planning needs
for future programs. The software could
be used to support commercial crew
ground operations planning, as well as
commercial payload/satellite ground
operations planning. The application
source code and database schema are
owned by NASA.

This work was done by Clifton Lanham of
Kennedy Space Center, and Pravinkumar Asar,
Shawn Kallner, and Jeffrey Gernand of SAIC. KSC-13621

This Brief includes a Technical Support Package (TSP).

Web Application Software for Ground Operations Planning Database (GOPDb) Management (reference KSC-13621) is currently available for download from the TSP library.

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